Rewatch Big Brother 2008 YouTube stream (Starts 7am 25 Oct)

I assume David's cult was Exclusive Brethren. i don't remember Rebecca at all.

And the live betting odds / in-show advertising is just gross.
 
FYI the streams are the best quality to retain the episodes in their original broadcast quality while you can. The individually uploaded ones are obviously still amazing but have all been re-encoded, compressed and they’ve excessively upped the colour saturation on every episode. The colour especially looks awful on a HD big screen.
whyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Edit: it could potentially be Youtube encoding of webm video.
omg really. What was the point in digitising them only to do it again? Madness.
Yeah. YouTube videos will typically always suffer from some sort compression, but I'm guessing the BB team are also adding some sort of upscaling and/or colour enhancement before they process them.

Threw together some side-by-side comparisons below. Not a complaint at all, because it's still absolutely amazing having the episodes in this quality, but there's definitely a difference between the live stream (broadcast master) copies and the individual uploads. They still look great, although you lose a lot of sharp detail on the latter, but I'll never get past how unnatural the colour is...

BBAU YT Upload Comparison.jpg
 
Dafaq? So they're just playing the files in VLC and streaming that window?

They’ve mentioned obs, which is a streaming software. You could select to stream a certain window in obs. But I don’t think it’s what they are doing. Obs has a vlc plug-in which is better than obs’ own media player.

When using the vlc plug-in, you can put together playlists and stuff and I assume they’re just throwing all episodes into that playlist. You’ll never see the original vlc interface and stay within the obs interface.
 
Also, the reason for the Friday night cancellation:

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Dafaq? So they're just playing the files in VLC and streaming that window?
I doubt it because VLC will show the video title/name at the start of each file (see: Dash Cam Owners Australia's streams on Twitch)

What they probably mean is the VLC Video Source in OBS where they can create a playlist of videos.
 
Ok what a twist, good I guess? I was just at peace with it remaining a fever dream but this is a good development even if Friday night is probably my main viewing time. Saturday morning absolutely not.
 
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